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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 7 · II.7.2.6
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p. 126Διαίρεσις ἠθικοῦ τόπου · συνέχεια
Ἐγὼ δ’ εἰ μὲν ἀργοτέρως διεκείμην, ἀρκεσθεὶς ἂν αὐτῇ συνείρον ἤδη τὰ περὶ τῶν ἀρεσκόντων, τῇ τῆς ἑξαμερείας ἐπικουφιζόμενος περιγραφῇ· ἡγούμενος δ’ ἐμαυτῷ πρέπειν πρὸ παντὸς τὴν οὐσίαν δεῖν ἐπισκοπεῖν οὗ τις πραγματεύεται, κἄπειτα ποιότητα τὴν περὶ αὐτὴν καὶ ποσότητα, καὶ τούτοις ἐφεξῆς τὸ πρός τι, νομίζω προσεπιπονητέον [τε] εἶναι καὶ τὰ τῶν ἄλλων ἐπισκοπεῖν, καθάπερ οὐ πάντων, οὕτως τῶν περὶ ταῦτα διενεγκάντων.
Ἔστιν οὖν Εὐδώρου τοῦ Ἀλεξανδρέως, Ἀκαδημιακοῦ φιλοσόφου, διαίρεσις τοῦ κατὰ φιλοσοφίαν λόγου, βιβλίον ἀξιόκτητον, ἐν ᾧ πᾶσαν ἐπεξελήλυθε προβληματικῶς τὴν ἐπιστήμην, ἧς ἐγὼ διαιρέσεως ἐκθήσομαι τὸ τῆς ἠθικῆς οἰκεῖον. Ἔχει δ’ οὕτως.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7
p. 127Division of the Ethical Field · 6
If I were less industrious, I would be content with this division and would already proceed to set out the doctrines, finding relief in the outline of its sixfold arrangement. But I consider it proper first of all to examine the essence of the subject under treatment, then its quality and quantity, and next its relations. I therefore think I must take further pains and examine the accounts of others as well: even if not everyone’s, at least those of people distinguished in these matters.148
Now there is a division of philosophical discourse by Eudorus of Alexandria, an Academic philosopher, a book worth possessing, in which he has gone through the whole field of knowledge by way of problems. I shall set out the part of that division belonging to ethics. It runs as follows.
Socrates
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The complete surviving text of Stobaeus’s second book, through II.46.22, in Ancient Greek and English, with an introduction and 1,541 explanatory notes. All forty-six chapter headings remain, including the notices for chapters whose texts are missing.
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Greek: Curt Wachsmuth, Ioannis Stobaei Anthologii libri duo priores, volumen II (Berlin: Weidmann, 1884), printed p. 1 and pp. 3–264. The supplied edition preserves consequential editorial signs, reconstructed joins, qualified attributions, and missing-text notices. English translation, introduction, and explanatory notes: Diotimos Editions, 2026.
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